Russian TV ridiculed for publishing interview of a dead opera singer

A Russian TV channel, who claimed to have interviewed an opera singer who died several years ago, was forced to apologise after it was ridiculed.

Zvezda has apologised for the "untruthful report" and assured that the incident was being investigated responsibly.&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspYouTube

A Russian TV channel, who claimed to have interviewed an opera singer who died several years ago, was forced to apologise after it was ridiculed. The Russian channel Zvezda had published an interview with Elena Obraztsova who died in 2015.

Zvezda said that they had spoken to the opera singer at the funeral of controversial journalist Sergei Dorenko. The journalist died last week while riding his motorcycle in Moscow.

The channel quoted the dead singer as saying that Dorenko was an "uncompromising journalist", who either "spoke the truth or did not speak at all".

However, the blunder did not skip the eyes of Twitter users and they were quick to point out that the opera singer had died back in 2015.

According to Russian independent media, Zvezda changed the story by attributing the quotes to Elena Obraztsova's daughter and later took the article down.

The article said that the interview was conducted at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, where Dorenko was due to have been buried on 12 May. However, the funeral was later cancelled as the deceased journalist's daughters from his first marriage sought further tests to be conducted on his body, BBC reported.

Zvezda has apologised for the "untruthful report" and assured that the incident was being investigated responsibly.

“TV channel Zvezda formally offers its apology... to everyone who might have seen the publication in question,” the statement said.

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